You are missing the point about representational art. When you understand people see and absorb one thing in different, individual ways you will see that painting gives you the opportunity to access different, otherwise inaccessible perspectives, and that in turn enriches you. Look at the same landscape view painted from the same angle by Monet, Corot and Turner and your grasp on that piece of land will be richer.
The point was not about contrasting say Turner with Monet, but rather a Turner landscape with say a contemporary piece of 'art' which may be just two bands of light and dark, titled "deconstructed landscape" with added 'explanation' that it is "representative of efforts to deconstruct the white suprematist oppression of realistic or impressionistic European art", with an accompanying note for an acclaimed art critic hailing it as "Insightful, brilliant, and an incredibly powerful message of rebellion and hope against an oppressive past".
It's not about taste preferences between two different brands of beer, it the difference between beer and hydrochloric acid (pretending to be some trendy new beer).
Why look at art when we can look at beautiful nature? How can a painting of something compare to its real subject?
Yes true and that would probably come under the first aspect of embodiment.
You are missing the point about representational art. When you understand people see and absorb one thing in different, individual ways you will see that painting gives you the opportunity to access different, otherwise inaccessible perspectives, and that in turn enriches you. Look at the same landscape view painted from the same angle by Monet, Corot and Turner and your grasp on that piece of land will be richer.
It is all about tastes and preferences. Just as not every beer drinker likes Corona.
I don't have monet to look at Monet.
The point was not about contrasting say Turner with Monet, but rather a Turner landscape with say a contemporary piece of 'art' which may be just two bands of light and dark, titled "deconstructed landscape" with added 'explanation' that it is "representative of efforts to deconstruct the white suprematist oppression of realistic or impressionistic European art", with an accompanying note for an acclaimed art critic hailing it as "Insightful, brilliant, and an incredibly powerful message of rebellion and hope against an oppressive past".
It's not about taste preferences between two different brands of beer, it the difference between beer and hydrochloric acid (pretending to be some trendy new beer).
This matter is "outside my purview."
Nevertheless appreciate your engagement Barry!